The folding boats |I have seen have pieces of wood to stiffen them. Don't try and fly the boat unless thy are inside the boat! I saw a beautiful Pa-12 crash because the front of boat bent over resulting in loss of control and a spiral into the water.

Seems to me they were under regulated or at least under-monitored. Shame to see them have to adopt ALL the red tape that commercial carriers suffer under though. Takes so long and costs so much to make anything happen.

I was told that Alaska used to firewall the engines on takeoff ( and had their own overhaul shop). I only firewalled the Goose once and when I found time to look at the m.p. it was coming back down through 42". Wonder how high they would go? Testament to the 985's durability.

You know in the early 80s, I a friend told me about a conversation between two TC types that he had overheard in the s. terminal (YVR) coffee shop. " you could INTERPRET this to mean" . Sure enough within a couple of months we had an inspector wandering around the dock in YPR telling people to untie...

I think I saw NIF at the south terminal (YVR) since 98 but I could be wrong. There were some good Goose sites on the net but they aren't in my bookmarks anymore. I'll have another look and post urls if I find any.

Best way I have seen to get pass. weight was a scale that was set up to weigh 5 or 6 people at a time. This not only avoided embarrassing folks, it gave you a dead accurate wt. ( this a/c will carry 1500#, split it up how you like !)

Good place to start is with the idea that the engine is subject to 2 stresses-thermal, which is measured at the cyl. head temp and oil temp, and mechanical which is measured at the tach. In general low rpm and high man. press. is the way to go. The exception to that is on takeoff, where reduced powe...

I started looking into the Thunder in the '80s. My thought was it would be a common engine for almost the whole fleet, Dhc-2,3,6 , Goose and Mallard. Seems to me the Thunder was to get something like .47 hp/lb (fuel)/hr. which was better than even the 985 I think and the extra 100 horses would have ...

As I recall, the fuel burn ( per the chart) is based on a temp of +4. The desert scoop didn't seem to need carb heat but the chin scoop sure did especially on the coast. I also used the 1" drop on the man. press. as a starting point.

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